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If you want to have your career life in Uk, after Bachelors go for work experience in your chosen career.
If you want to have your career life in USA, after Bachelors go for further studies.
If you want to live in Nigeria, try any work and if none is forthcoming, go hide in school.

Hope my i-pass-my-neighbour independent power supply will not blow the bulbs. Otherwise I don't need the free bulbs..

moremi2008: That's not how most househelps are treated. It might seem like a free-for-all situation but there are actually in-built checks and balances. First, it's hard to find a good househelp and most people that hire them tend to treat them fairly well. Second, if you treat a househelp badly, she will most likely run away. Three, the middleman that matches househelps with families will NOT work with you again if you treat one of the helps badly. Having said this, there are always exceptions, especially when the househelp has nobody to look out for his/her interests.

Almost every family I know back home have househelps and they are treated very well. My family is an example; we have always had househelps and they are paid and treated very well. Ditto for all the other families I know. The ones currently helping my mum earn 15k a month and they get free lodging, food and clothes (they also spend half the day sleeping and getting very fat).

It is very simple...Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
To be honest, when growing up i felt the helps my family had were specially treated because unlike us kids, my parents who were firm believers in not sparing the rod never raise their hands or voice when speaking to the househelps but i do remmeber my father calmly telling a few to go back to their homes when they are guilty of particularly bad behaviour - one was reported by neighbors for entertaining boyfriends when no one is home. On the flip side I remember separate instances of two people that traced my family even after moving houses almost 2 decades later. And it was like long lost relatives come back with the way they happily catchup and share nostalgic moments with my parents. Thankfully i have no recollection of them and all the others when they stayed with us because as they say, short term memory is characteristic of a genius

I wish. Now are they going to be blowing up churches or mosques if they detect more than 10 people gathered together?

Sounds like Good Jonathan saying he is a Good man, instead of acting it. Just do it already.

sick sick sick

When will this madness stop?

What happened to Chemical Engineering or Elect/Elect Eng'g?

Those 2 used to be the only ones anybody entering OAU Faculty of Technology ever wanted to study.

Hopefully there is now the realisation amongst secondary school leavers and parents that the Industry in Nigeria is inexistent. Very easy to see that most Chemical Engineering graduates do not end up as Chemical Engineers; ditto Elect/Elect. Most Elect Elect graduates these days end up as Computer salesmen or to sugar-coat it - IT Consultants.

They both should be affordable and cost effective if they are both new.
Old and experienced always require more maintenance.

Her White Family.

What exactly does that mean?

If only this incident had occurred when i was in primary school and my English language teacher had used it to describe what the idiom - clutching at straws - meant, I would have understood sharpish.

PLAGIARISM is not good at all. No matter how well Sanusi implements imperialistic policies, he has now put to sleep his hope of ever working in IMF or Worldbank.

Even in Nigeria where anything goes, i know lecturers that got the sack with the attendant disgrace for Plagiarism (at OAU, Ife).

They say the word PLAGIARISM has its origin from the latin word for KIDNAPPING - plagiare, which means to kidnap or abduct.

Did the bill of capital punishment for Kidnappers get passed by the national Assembly? I hope not

Just 4 people left viewing and 4 pple commenting on this thread...am UN-following in the next few secs...then it will remain just 3 people..

was going to say the same...

I was thinking the thread was interesting but now people are taking it out on each other - maybe these people are friends or even nephews and uncles in real life, who knows. nyway, it is Ok anyway to disagree with one another.

My only take is that each man and woman should go and to take proper cae of their pikin.

shymmex: Nigerians are crazy people - keep blaming the parents... If the shyte hole called Nigeria didn't drive these parents, who wanted better lives for their kids into exile - these boys won't be in the situation they're in right now..

What can the parents do?? Most parents our here work VERY hard, to pay bills, tax, and look after their kids - but it's not as easy as you guys think. Parents work round the clock most times, and are never at home. These kids grew up around gang members, and drug dealers - and they're enticed from a young age... It's different out here, if you are raised in a council flat.. You've to form a bond with all the 'yutes' you grew up with - because everywhere is territorial.. That's the only way you won't get bullied, and probably fend for yourself without depending on your parents..

One other thing most people don't know is that, most Nigerian kids out here were raised in broken homes - where the Dad is either absent, or around, but don't play active roles in the lives of their kids... Naija mums in the UK are BLACK QUEENS, trust me - and you can't blame them, because most of them break their backs everyday doing odd jobs, to cater for their kids... The system is just phucked up, and the thieving bastards in the shyte hole called Nigeria - have also destroyed their home country..

It's easy for you guys to come on the internet and post silly comments - but please do a thorough research before posting your ignorance...

Someone still has to be responsible. At the end of the day, it is still bad parenting
I know of families outside of Nigeria with teenagers whose parents are forever trying to get them go out and participate in other activities, sports because all they ever want to do after school hours and on weekends is stay indoors reading textbooks and novels. These are also hardworking parents with kids no different from those brought up in good homes in Nigeria with high morals.

Why are people so blind to see. This has no bearing with what Nigerian tribes they come from.
It boils down to individual parenting. To love your child is not to allow him all the freedom in the world like to be feral and grow to be an animal - with no morals or understanding of right and wrong.
I really hope some academic has done a study on how migrant parents bring up their children in foreign countries

mkpologwu: Marcel Awolowo-ku-lehin (ie awolowo die behind him)! How possible Awo die behind this Marcel
His name sef na lie!

I want to believe you're just playing with words or probably feigning ignorance.
Am not yoro but Lagos born and bred and know Awokulehin would be something like Awo(not Awolowo) is behind.
I may be wrong but you definitely are..

i agree it is hightime people in whatever position start being held responsible in Nigeria.
Le's hope the man is held accountable..somehow

Yeah...he has the money ready. Once they can ascertain who the top man in bh is then they can do the exchange. Money for Peace.
Nigeria our fatherland

I think some countries pull a fast one on Nigeria: happens mostly on stopover flights.

NO

coogar: that's the least of the worries of nigerians.
there's hardly any high ranking politician in nigeria who hasn't been in prison.
having a criminal record is no biggie in nigeria for politicians.
matter of fact, a criminal record strengthens their chance of winning political seats.

Nice.

coogar: he was convicted in england, not in nigeria.
it's up to the electoral officer to screen the politicians vying for posts.
if he slips through their screening, whose fault?

Exactly my point...who takes responsibility...nobody.
So sit back and watch this same scenario happen over and over and over again....

coogar: any nigerian citizen can contest for any political office in nigeria.
what is your point?

Oh really? even criminals? Nigeria must be a Jungle.
he man was sacked and arrested for thieving..theft..stealing

A pity Nigeria never learns from experience: not even from its own history.
In a sane society questions will be asked of how he was able to contest in an election considering that he was once a shop cashier thief.

To think he thinks Ibori cares about him.
He probably thinks he will get some money off Ibori.

Albert Camus said “I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”

Everyman has a choice what he wants to believe.

There she goes, foot in the mouth. "Am not good at being a finance minister but I'll be a good World bank president"

Callotti: It is a man's world for sure.
Back to the kitchen NOI. . .children's malnutrition world-wide takes priortity over your PHD in finance.

Mu he he he he he he

You meant PHD in Urban and Regional Planning.

Blood is thicker than water.

Governance in Nigeria is about spending money(positive effect on lifes of a few Nigerians) and not about results (positive effect on lifes of all Nigerians).
When new appointees get into office, their main goals are to come up with programmmes that lots of money can be spent on and made from; and to keep those programmes that money can easily be siphoned from. Simple.

[quote author=M.O.M]PRIDE[/quote]Yes! I know better and it is either my way on no way!
Inbility to forgive each other.
Simply put, where there is no LOVE there is fertile ground for HATRED.

yeah right, especially when the only issues they comment on are football, sex and women.

Are these politicians ever going to get wise? I forget they are past 40.
How can Tinubu be 70? Agreed he does not appear to make much sense as he and his party have failed to champion any transformation policy as Awolowo did but hey, Tinubu 70? Yams..